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and legendary art. The nimbus of 

 God the Father had the form of a 

 single triangle, or of one triangle 

 superposed on another, with di- 

 vergent rays and, occasionally, 

 the Greek letters a (alpha) and w 

 (omega) in the right and left lower 

 corners of the superior triangle. 

 The halo of the Saviour showed, 

 within the circle, parts of the arms 

 of a cross, the rest of which was 

 concealed by the head. The. 

 Virgin's head was surrounded 

 either by a plain circle or by a 

 circlet of stars, while the saint's 

 halo was usually a circle of rays. 

 A square nimbus indicated that 

 the person so adorned was living 

 when the painting was made. The 

 halo is not unknown in sculpture, 

 especially in Indian art. Among 

 the Hindus it took various shapes. 

 For instance, the hair of the 

 modelled image might be designed 

 as streaming, halo-like, from each 

 side of the head. See Saint. 



Hal of the Wynd. Character in 

 Scott's novel The Fair Maid of 

 Perth. He is also called Henry Gow 

 and the Gow Chrom (the bandy- 

 legged smith). His name Hal or 

 Henry of the Wynd, is applied to 

 him because he lived in the Wynd 

 of Perth. Known as the best arm- 

 ourer that ever made sword, and 

 the truest soldier that ever drew 

 one, his fear that Catharine Glover 

 had been promised to Conachar 

 (Eachin Maclan) made him es- 

 pouse the cause of Clan Chattan 

 against Clan Quhele, in the famous 

 battle of the North Inch. Four 

 months after the battle Hal of the 

 Wynd and Catharine are married. 



Halogens (Gr. hols, salt ; gen-, 

 to produce). Name applied by Ber- 

 zelius to a group of closely allied ele- 

 ments, fluorine, chlorine, bromine, 

 and iodine. The salts of these 

 elements are known as haloid salts. 

 Each of the halogens is mon ato- 

 mic, and they exhibit well-marked 

 gradation in their properties ac- 

 cording to the atomic weights of 

 the elements. 



Haloragaceae. Natural order 

 of herbs and shrubs. Mostly per- 

 ennial, they aie widely distributed 

 throughout the world. Many of 

 them are marsh or aquatic herbs, 

 like the mare's-tail (Hippuris). 

 The flowers are mostly minute, the 

 sexes separate. The plants have 

 no economic importance. 



Hals, FRANS (c. 1580-1666). 

 Dutch painter. He was born, prob- 

 ably at Antwerp, the son of Pieter 

 Hals Clarz. He probably studied 

 under Adam van Noort at Ant- 

 werp, and afterwards .with Van 

 Mander at Haarlem. His first 

 known work of importance is the 

 group of the S. George's Shooting 

 Guild of Haarlem, now in the Haar- 



lem museum ; it was painted in 

 1616, and is one of seven large 

 pictures of contemporary guilds. 

 The artist's extraordinary gift for 

 seizing and expressing a fleeting 

 human emotion is nowhere better 

 shown than in The Laughing 

 Cavalier, in the Wallace collection. 



The National Gallery possesses 

 five pictures by Hals, but the great- 

 est works of his brush are in Dutch 

 galleries, and it is often said that 

 Hals cannot be appreciated without 

 a visit to Haarlem, where there are 

 ten paintings in the municipal 

 museum, representing all periods 

 of his activity up to the last year 

 of his life. The Ryks museum, Am- 

 sterdam, the Hague gallery, and the 

 Louvre have also good examples. 

 For generations his work was held 

 of small account ; one of his por- 

 traits, now in Berlin, changed hands 

 in 1786 for five shillings. 



Hals was twice married. His 

 first wife died in 1615, the victim 

 of his ill-treatment ; the second, 



Frans Hals, Dutch painter, self-portrait 



Haarlem Museum 



Lysbeth Reyniers, lived with him 

 for nearly fifty years and bore him 

 five sons, all of whom became 

 artists. During his later years Hals 

 lived on an allowance from the 

 municipality of Haarlem, eked out 

 by the proceeds from a teaching 

 studio he had started. He died 

 at Haarlem. See Descartes ; 

 Dutch Art. 



Halsbury, HARDINGE STANLEY 

 GIFFARD, IST EARL OF (1823-1921 ). 

 British lawyer. Born Sept. 3, 1823, 

 of a Devon- 

 shire family, he 

 w a s educated 

 at Merton Col- 

 lege, Oxford. 

 He became a 

 barrister, hav- 

 ing hereditary 

 connexions 

 with that pro- 

 fession, and 

 after fifteen 

 years of steady 

 practice, 

 especially in 



criminal cases, was made a Q.C. 

 in 1865. In 1875, not yet having 

 secured a seat in Parliament, 

 he was made solicitor-general by 

 Disraeli, and in 1877 he entered 

 the House of Commons as M.P. 

 for Launceston. In 1885 he was 

 created a peer, as Baron Halsbnry, 

 and was made lord chancellor. He 

 filled that office throughout the 

 Conservative ministries of 1886- 

 92 and 1895-1905. 



In 1898 he was made earl of 

 Halsbury and Viscount Tiverton. 

 He was high steward of Oxford 

 University from 1896 onwards. 

 Halsbury was remarkable for his 

 physical vigour. When over 80 

 he edited The Encyclopaedia of the 

 Laws of England ; when over 90 he 

 sat as a judge in the House of Lords. 

 Although not a profound lawyer, he 

 w as an able j udge. He died Dec. 1 1 , 

 1921. Pron. Hallsbury. 



Halsey, SIR LIONEL (b. 1872). 

 British sailor. Born Feb. 26, 1872, 

 he was educated at Fareham and 

 joined H.M.S. 

 Britannia in 

 1885, becoming 

 a lieutenant in 

 1893. He served 

 in the defence 

 of Ladysmith, 

 1899 -1900, and 

 reached the 

 rank of com- 

 mander in 1.901. 

 Promoted cap- 

 tain in 1905, he 

 commanded H.M.S. New Zealand 

 during the empire cruise of that 

 ship, which he also commanded 

 in the action in the Heligoland 

 Bight, Aug., 1914, and in the action 

 off the Dogger Bank, Jan. 24, 1915. 

 He was on Jellicoe's staff in the 

 Iron Duke in the battle of Jutland, 

 May 31, 1916. In 1917 he became 

 third sea lord, and in Oct., 1918, 

 was appointed to command the 

 Australian navy. Hakey accom- 

 panied the prince of Wales in 

 the Renown as chief of staff, 

 March-Oct, 1920. He became 

 comptroller and treasurer to the 

 prince in Dec. of that year. He 

 was knighted in 1918 and pro- 

 moted vice-admiral in 1D21. 



Halsingborg. Alternative spel- 

 ling of the Swedish town better 

 known as Helsingborg (q.v. ). 



Halstead. Urban dist. and 

 market town of Essex, England. 

 It stands on the Colne, 15 m. N.W. 

 of Colchester, on the Colne Valley 

 and Halstead Rly. The church of 

 S. Andrew dates from the 14th 

 century, and contains stone effigies 

 of two unknown knights and brass 

 effigies of members of the Bonr- 

 chier family. Other buildings in- 

 clude the town hall, corn exchange, 

 and cottage hospital. Silk and 



Sir Lionel Halsey, 

 British sailor 



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